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I don't remember the title, but I read a novel a while back.
In the story this was the way that hackers were getting paid for selling top secret information, hacks and passwords.
They were able to be paid and receive money anonymously anywhere in the world.

I don't remember the title, but I read a novel a while back.
In the story this was the way that hackers were getting paid for selling top secret information, hacks and passwords.
They were able to be paid and receive money anonymously anywhere in the world.

I first learned about them from this article on Gawker about an underground drug marketplace online, where Bitcoins are the currency.

I don't remember the title, but I read a novel a while back.
In the story this was the way that hackers were getting paid for selling top secret information, hacks and passwords.
They were able to be paid and receive money anonymously anywhere in the world.

Reminds me of a William Gibson novel. Can't recall which though...

The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made out of atoms it might find useful for something else. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

I like the idea and I do want it to succeed. Although, given the resistance it has and will have from govt, banks etc, it's gonna be hard.
At some point it was quite popular, then one generator(the guy who ran coin gen) got hacked, people panicked, even though it was clearly his neglect...
These days I dunno, but there's quite a few people contributing to it unknowingly Warez can easily install bit coin generator instead of a virus. So, your comp silently generates cents or dollars for "someone"...